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<p><b><font face="Arial Black" size="5">Comparison to the &quot;competitors&quot;</font></b></p>
<p><font face="Arial">While X-Bot has no known competitors, we can break it down 
into its component parts and see how it stacks up to each major competitor in 
each area:</font></p>
<p><b><font face="Arial">X-Bot is made of:</font></b></p>
<ul>
  <li><b><font face="Arial"><a href="#UI">X-Bot User Interface</a></font></b></li>
  <li><b><font face="Arial"><a href="#TCL">X-Bot.tcl</a></font></b></li>
  <li><font face="Arial"><b><a href="#Eggdrop">Eggdrop and Windrop</a> </b><i>
  <font size="1">(for Shells and your computer respectively)</font></i></font></li>
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<p><font face="Arial"><b><a name="UI"></a>X-Bot User Interface</b></font></p>
<ul>
  <li><font face="Arial"><b>Eggdrop Configurator<br>
  </b><font size="2">- Poorly configures Eggdrop files in comparison to X-Bot<br>
  - Inefficient<br>
  - Does not bundle any TCLs<br>
  - Cannot configure TCL Scripts</font></font></li>
</ul>
<p><font face="Arial"><b><a name="TCL"></a></b></font><b><font face="Arial">X-Bot.tcl</font></b></p>
<ul>
  <li><b><font face="Arial">OTBN.tcl</font></b><font face="Arial"><b><br>
  </b><font size="2">- Known to spontaneously perform illegal channel takeovers<br>
  - Constantly kicks people for false floods, unlike X-Bot<br>
  - Buggy and insecure<br>
  - Tricky Access levels<br>
  - Hard to configure</font></font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial"><b>Stormbot.tcl<br>
  </b><font size="2">- Poor reputation for security<br>
  - One public version had a hacker backdoor integrated<br>
  - Hard to configure</font></font></li>
  <li><b><font face="Arial">Rainbot</font></b><font face="Arial"><b>.tcl<br>
  </b><font size="2">- Similar to Stormbot.tcl<br>
  </font></font><font size="2" face="Arial">- Generally regarded as a 
  low-quality TCL<br>
  - Hard to configure<br>
  - Proprietary</font></li>
</ul>
<p><b><font face="Arial"><a name="Eggdrop"></a>Eggdrop/Windrop</font></b></p>
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  <li><b><font face="Arial">pIRCh</font></b><font face="Arial"><b><br>
  </b><font size="2">- Program has not been updated in 4 years as of this 
  release of X-Bot<br>
  - Uses antiquated Pascal language style<br>
  - Doesn't easily allow you to run bots 24/7<br>
  - No UNIX Shell accounts support this standard</font></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
  - Windows Only<br>
  - Not powerful in terms of bot usage<br>
  - Hard to implement any sort of security- must be done manually<br>
  - Cannot run in background</font></li>
  <li><b><font face="Arial">mIRC</font></b><font face="Arial"><b><br>
  </b><font size="2">- Doesn't easily allow you to run bots 24/7<br>
  - No UNIX Shell accounts support this standard<br>
  - Windows Only<br>
  - Not powerful in terms of bot usage<br>
  - Hard to implement any sort of security- must be done manually<br>
  - Cannot run in background</font></font></li>
  <li><font face="Arial"><b>MS Chat / Comic Chat<br>
  </b><font size="2">- Doesn't easily allow you to run bots 24/7<br>
  - No UNIX Shell accounts support this standard<br>
  - Windows Only<br>
  - Not powerful in terms of bot usage<br>
  - Security is basically impossible to implement<br>
  - Cannot run in background<br>
  - Banned on many IRC networks due to its flawed design.</font></font></li>
</ul>
<p><font face="Arial">If you know of any other competitors, feel free to contact 
us at <a href="mailto:x-bot@ottech.cjb.net">x-bot@ottech.cjb.net</a> </font></p>
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